CartoTalk - A public forum for cartography and design : http://www.cartotalk.com/
Cartisan AGS is a cartographic firm specializing in producing custom maps (blend creative, artistic themes with an efficient design, using the latest techniques and software to create legible, artistic and accurate maps). : http://www.cartisan.com/portfolio/
Is there a business here, or is this just cool? : http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB111955274074067858-4RQeZ6QSv1Isa_X7XhwomJ_U0j0_20060710,00.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top (check out Walt Mossberg's review from last week), Google Earth (earth.google.com) is a program that lets you fly across the globe, zooming in and out of satellite photos.
"The more you cast your net into the water, the better your chances of catching a fish." -
" Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get." -
13 July 2005
Google Maps Transparencies : http://www.kokogiak.com/gmaps-transparencies.html Click and drag anywhere, just like normal Google Maps, and see how the Map View matches the Satellite View (can control the level of transparency).
Complete collection of icons from all major operating systems interfaces (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Gnome,
BeOS, etc.) : http://www.aresluna.org/guidebook/icons/components
Free Online Spyware And Virus Scanners: http://www.masternewmedia.org/spyware_scan/spyware_tools/free_online_spyware_scanners_20050713.htm
"Most people don't pay attention to the calm voice of reason unless it's juxtaposed by screaming idiots on either side of the fence." - ?
12 July 2005
International conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGIV05) : http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV05/ from http://www.infovis.net/printRec.php?rec=eventos&lang=2#IV05
Journeys of the Mind; Sometimes scientists' speculations led to actual voyages, but more often they prompted a result or outcome achieved through observation and experimentation. : http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Voyages/all-items.htm The Smithsonian's collection is particularly strong in the theoretical journeys of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and astronomy.
"With most sites, when Web users click on words or a picture, the site's software calls out to a server to pull data, perform a computation, or show an image. With sites developed using Ajax, the browser loads an engine that draws the user interface and performs the requests for information in the background." While Ajax may be excessively ad hoc for traditional application programmers, it could easily be embraced by Web designers who are already immersed in their own mixed-up world of markup languages, style sheets, and scripting languages. : http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=165600304 Since its technologies center on the way software pulls data from a server and executes code, it affects more than the user-interface layer. "It suggests a whole different model for software development," Butterfield says. Add to the list of cons the fact that sophisticated users can view the underlying JavaScript code in a browser and have a guess at how an application was built.
"...in this increasingly complex, messy, and option-filled world, we must acknowledge that our customers hold the reins. Attempts to control their experience will lead to abandonment for the less onerous alternative. What we can do is provide the best tools and content that they can fit into their lives, and their ways." - Peter Merholz, Adaptive Path, http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000501.php
What are people searching for? (see the press release covering the study)
Most people (88%) said they were researching specific topics?specifically, information about hobbies.
Getting directions/maps - 75%
Looking for news - 64%
Women (61%) were more likely to search for health and medical information than men (35%).
Shopping - 51% (most people (80%) are comparing prices, rather than looking for a local retailer)
Looking for entertainment web sites - 47% (the majority (61%) are looking for show times or reviews, rather than download sources)
Surprisingly few people researching specific topics are looking for job or career information (28%).
"Less is more in Web search interfaces for older adults" / More is more for youth?
"Sometimes when things take longer than you thought they would, it's just a gentle reminder from your greater self that you have more time than you thought, and that there's a journey to enjoy." - The Universe (just because it's taking longer than you thought it would, doesn't mean stuff isn't happening).
Journeys of the Mind; Sometimes scientists' speculations led to actual voyages, but more often they prompted a result or outcome achieved through observation and experimentation. : http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Voyages/all-items.htm The Smithsonian's collection is particularly strong in the theoretical journeys of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and astronomy.
"With most sites, when Web users click on words or a picture, the site's software calls out to a server to pull data, perform a computation, or show an image. With sites developed using Ajax, the browser loads an engine that draws the user interface and performs the requests for information in the background." While Ajax may be excessively ad hoc for traditional application programmers, it could easily be embraced by Web designers who are already immersed in their own mixed-up world of markup languages, style sheets, and scripting languages. : http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=165600304 Since its technologies center on the way software pulls data from a server and executes code, it affects more than the user-interface layer. "It suggests a whole different model for software development," Butterfield says. Add to the list of cons the fact that sophisticated users can view the underlying JavaScript code in a browser and have a guess at how an application was built.
"...in this increasingly complex, messy, and option-filled world, we must acknowledge that our customers hold the reins. Attempts to control their experience will lead to abandonment for the less onerous alternative. What we can do is provide the best tools and content that they can fit into their lives, and their ways." - Peter Merholz, Adaptive Path, http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000501.php
What are people searching for? (see the press release covering the study)
Most people (88%) said they were researching specific topics?specifically, information about hobbies.
Getting directions/maps - 75%
Looking for news - 64%
Women (61%) were more likely to search for health and medical information than men (35%).
Shopping - 51% (most people (80%) are comparing prices, rather than looking for a local retailer)
Looking for entertainment web sites - 47% (the majority (61%) are looking for show times or reviews, rather than download sources)
Surprisingly few people researching specific topics are looking for job or career information (28%).
"Less is more in Web search interfaces for older adults" / More is more for youth?
"Sometimes when things take longer than you thought they would, it's just a gentle reminder from your greater self that you have more time than you thought, and that there's a journey to enjoy." - The Universe (just because it's taking longer than you thought it would, doesn't mean stuff isn't happening).
11 July 2005
"The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas." - Albert Einstein, (1879-1955) Physicist & Nobel Laureate
08 July 2005
Google Maps Mashed With Census Data ; Use the map like your normally would; the red dots will refresh as you move the map around and zoom. : http://www.gcensus.com/index.php
Voronoi treemaps for the visualization of software metrics : pdf available at http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1056018.1056041 uses engaging 'chickenwire' grid.
American Memory maps are “zoomable” and can be examined in detail using Lizard Tech’s MrSID technology (making it possible to view and work with these maps "offline.") : http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/maps/introduction.html
Visual Learning/communication Blog : http://graphicfacilitation.blogs.com/pages/
Principles of Visual Displays of Information:
Always enforce data comparisons: “Compared with what?”
Show causality: “How could this have happened?”
Show multi-variables: “How much change? How long? How many factors?"
Completely integrate words, data and images: “What can you do to bring more clarity to the issues?”
Content is king: “How can a designer do no harm to the content's substance, quality, integrity, and purpose?”
Information is stacked in space(and time)
Use small multiples: “How can we see the sun rotated? Record it's sunspots over time!”
An aerial view of the Sacramento River that is woven into a carpet for the floor of a pedestrian bridge : (from http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ )
http://here2day.netwiz.net/seyedsite/publicart/flyingcarpet/flyingcarpetframe.html
Voronoi treemaps for the visualization of software metrics : pdf available at http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1056018.1056041 uses engaging 'chickenwire' grid.
American Memory maps are “zoomable” and can be examined in detail using Lizard Tech’s MrSID technology (making it possible to view and work with these maps "offline.") : http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/maps/introduction.html
Visual Learning/communication Blog : http://graphicfacilitation.blogs.com/pages/
Principles of Visual Displays of Information:
Always enforce data comparisons: “Compared with what?”
Show causality: “How could this have happened?”
Show multi-variables: “How much change? How long? How many factors?"
Completely integrate words, data and images: “What can you do to bring more clarity to the issues?”
Content is king: “How can a designer do no harm to the content's substance, quality, integrity, and purpose?”
Information is stacked in space(and time)
Use small multiples: “How can we see the sun rotated? Record it's sunspots over time!”
An aerial view of the Sacramento River that is woven into a carpet for the floor of a pedestrian bridge : (from http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ )http://here2day.netwiz.net/seyedsite/publicart/flyingcarpet/flyingcarpetframe.html
07 July 2005
"It’s not clear yet whether PPCall (in all its potential forms) will substitute for pay-per-click adoption or whether many local businesses will adopt and use both (service providers may opt for calls, while local product sellers pursue clicks)." - http://www.searchengineguide.com/sterling/004942.html
"Drawing is a much-unappreciated art form, primarily because the works are so rarely exhibited in the museums that own them. They only make a brief public appearance on those occasions when they fit into a larger show. Otherwise, hidden away folder filed in boxes in dark rooms due to their fragility and sensitivity to light they are poured over only by scholars and connoisseursfor the many insights they afford into the mind and working methods of their creators as well as for their sheer intensity and beauty." - http://www.artcyclopedia.com/feature.html
“Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.”—Jesse James Garrett, 2002
“The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.”—Steven Johnson, 1997
“A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.”—Ben Shneiderman, 2003
“[Leonardo Da Vinci] combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.”—Ben Shneiderman, 2002
"A great man is formed not only by the gifts of nature, but also by the sight of beautiful drawings." - Count de Caylus
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press." - Alexander Solzhenitzyn
Einstein once termed the distinction between past, present and future "a stubborn illusion".
"Drawing is a much-unappreciated art form, primarily because the works are so rarely exhibited in the museums that own them. They only make a brief public appearance on those occasions when they fit into a larger show. Otherwise, hidden away folder filed in boxes in dark rooms due to their fragility and sensitivity to light they are poured over only by scholars and connoisseursfor the many insights they afford into the mind and working methods of their creators as well as for their sheer intensity and beauty." - http://www.artcyclopedia.com/feature.html
“Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.”—Jesse James Garrett, 2002
“The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.”—Steven Johnson, 1997
“A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.”—Ben Shneiderman, 2003
“[Leonardo Da Vinci] combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.”—Ben Shneiderman, 2002
"A great man is formed not only by the gifts of nature, but also by the sight of beautiful drawings." - Count de Caylus
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press." - Alexander Solzhenitzyn
Einstein once termed the distinction between past, present and future "a stubborn illusion".
06 July 2005
Cognitive Maps, Cognitive Collages, and Spatial Mental Models (1993) http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~cosit03/tversky-COSIT93.pdf
Taking the view that maps " are another way that we can tell stories"....
How to Read an Early Modern Map: Between the Particular and the General, the Material and the Abstract, Words and Mathematics : http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/09-1/edwamaps.html
A History of Communications : http://www.nathan.com/projects/current/comtimeline.html
VR Photography (or Immersive Photography); a panoramic image displayed in a viewer which you can control with your mouse to look around from a single view point. : http://panoramas.dk/
JavaScript Tutorials : http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/JavaScript/All/ and weblog : http://javascript.weblogsinc.com/
extisp.icio.us images displays a random Yahoo images search result for each of a user's tag words : http://kevan.org/extispicious
A little hack that uses Google's superb mapping application to help record distances traveled during a running workout : http://sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/
ka-Map ( http://ka-map.maptools.org/ ) open source "Google map" style application : http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/7106
Interesting InfoGraphics blog : http://www.nixlog.com/infographics/
Until font downloading technology is perfected, Web designers must normally restrict themselves to fonts that are available on most users’ computer systems. : http://www.angelfire.com/al4/rcollins/style/fonts.html
Blog of NetArt projects : http://www.stunned.org/weblog/archives/cat_netart.html
Visimo strategy : http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/business/s_348463.html
First image on the Web : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_image_on_the_Web
"You gotta have a dream, 'cause if you don't have a dream, how ya gonna have a dream come true?" - Daniel Johnston
Taking the view that maps " are another way that we can tell stories"....
How to Read an Early Modern Map: Between the Particular and the General, the Material and the Abstract, Words and Mathematics : http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/09-1/edwamaps.html
A History of Communications : http://www.nathan.com/projects/current/comtimeline.html
VR Photography (or Immersive Photography); a panoramic image displayed in a viewer which you can control with your mouse to look around from a single view point. : http://panoramas.dk/
JavaScript Tutorials : http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/JavaScript/All/ and weblog : http://javascript.weblogsinc.com/
extisp.icio.us images displays a random Yahoo images search result for each of a user's tag words : http://kevan.org/extispicious
A little hack that uses Google's superb mapping application to help record distances traveled during a running workout : http://sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/
ka-Map ( http://ka-map.maptools.org/ ) open source "Google map" style application : http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/7106
Interesting InfoGraphics blog : http://www.nixlog.com/infographics/
Until font downloading technology is perfected, Web designers must normally restrict themselves to fonts that are available on most users’ computer systems. : http://www.angelfire.com/al4/rcollins/style/fonts.html
Blog of NetArt projects : http://www.stunned.org/weblog/archives/cat_netart.html
Visimo strategy : http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/business/s_348463.html
First image on the Web : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_image_on_the_Web
"You gotta have a dream, 'cause if you don't have a dream, how ya gonna have a dream come true?" - Daniel Johnston
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